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Summary: fun...but not a classic
Review: The novel had enough terrorizing scenes and enough gore to make it a page turner for horror fans, but there are a few problems with it. First, I think Saul went overboard with "down on her luck " nature of the lead character Caroline. Her husband was murdered (that part is necessary), she is running out of money, she hates her boss because her boss is SO unfair, the bills are piling up, she struggles to make time for her kids, blah blah blah. It seems as if Saul is down on his knees begging us to like his main character. But his descritions and development of the old people in the Rockwell building and the building itself are deliciously eery. I did find the book a little on the predictable side. The reader will figure out most of the story about halfway through, if not earlier. All in all, it was a fun novel to read, but one I wont remember six months from now.
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Summary: I would love to give this five stars
Review: This book was great, I mean really a pleasure to read, but Saul ends this book as he does with the Manhattan Hunt Club the same way, predictable and too fast that makes the build-up to the end somewhat cheaper when you're done reading it. Thats the bad part, the great part, however, is that this is an engaging story that is IMPOSSIBLE to put down. I'd love to give it five stars, but as I said the ending was too simple and tied up the story way too easily.
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Summary: Saul - Midnight Voices
Review: With Midnight Voices, Saul continues the fascination with New York he introduced in his last effort, The Manhattan Hunt Club. Yet, unlike that novel and most of his output since The Blackstone Chronicles (a must-read novel), Midnight Voices is quite well done.Centering on a creepy Manhattan apartment building, Saul takes a page out of Rosemary's Baby and delivers an eerie, disturbing tale. While the plot is strong, for the most part, it was easy to predict its direction and ultimate outcome early on in the novel. In addition, Saul missed a good opportunity to expand the story to include plot lines only uncovered in the novel's epilogue. Unlike many contemporary thrillers or horror novels that run on for too long with too little substance, Saul had a lot to work with and he didn't fully utilize it all. Despite these flaws, Midnight Voices is a fast-paced, creepy thriller worth the few hours it will take readers to finish it.
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Summary: Never mind
Review: Never quite did it for me in this one. A dull read. sorry, but plodding plot did nada for this cowboy.
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Summary: It is too good to be a fiction
Review: John Saul did it again. Midnight Voices is the story about a widow in New York City is struggling to raise two of her children and the thrill starts when she remarried.With the connection of her best friend and neighbor girl death, she and her children feel some kind of strange that the people from the same building where she live with her new husband are paying too much attention to them.New husband's closed study room, the son's story about old pictures and neigbors strange attitudes make her eager to know more about history of the building where she stays currently.
Unable to stop reading it because the book give you a lot of excitements
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Summary: It's too good to be a fiction
Review: A widow is struggling to raise her two children and the thrill starts when she remarried. With the connection of her best friend and neighbour girl death, she and her kids feel kind of strange that everybody in the building where she live with her new husband is paying too much attention to them. With New York City background setting It's too good to be a fiction.
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Summary: Some Rumors Shouldn't Be Ignored
Review: When Caroline Evans' husband is murdered in Central Park, she goes to work at an antique shop to support herself and her two children. During her son's baseball games in the Park, she meets Anthony Fleming. The meeting seems innocent enough with one of his friends introducing them. After only a few months of courtship, Caroline and Anthony are married and she and her children Laurie and Ryan move into his apartment in The Rockwell, an upscale apartment building located just outside the Park. The Rockwell has a reputation amongst the neighborhood children as being a haven for vampires and witches.
Ryan is dead set against the marriage from the beginning and creates havoc for the newly weds, forcing Anthony to take measures into his own hands. Laurie hears voices her first night in her new home coming from behind the walls. Then what seemed to be a nightmare, takes on a frightening reality when she awakes in a bloody gown. Ryan finds some disturbing photographs in Anthony's office causing his suspicions about the man to grow. What the loving bride fails to realize, is that Anthony and his neighbors desperately need her children to survive. Rebecca Mayhew, the foster child of the Albions and Laurie's new friend, is sick with an unknown illness. Andrea Constanza, a college friend of Caroline's, is Rebecca's caseworker. In her worry over the girl's steadily worsening condition she confronts her mysterious Dr. Theodore Humphries, D.O. another Rockwell neighbor. Andrea is murdered that night. Then Rebecca disappears behind a mysterious story of her staying with relatives out of state for her health. Midnight Voices teaches that rumors are not always created to hurt an individual or to scare little children sometimes they are meant to warn people away from danger...
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Summary: John Saul has a new fan....
Review: I read this book and thought it was fantastic. I loved the characters and I didn't want the story to end even though I wanted to know the outcome.
I loved this book and I recommend it to anyone looking for a good thriller to read. I am definitely going to read his other books.
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Summary: Saul missed the mark.
Review: Neo-gothic thriller writer John Saul takes the creepy hotel out of his novel 'The Right Hand of Evil' and sets it down next to Central Park West and then moves the youth sucking old people from his novel 'Darkness' into it and cooks up with one of his most lukewarm offerings in years, Midnight Voices. The novel starts off farily well, with a murder and a nightmare sequence that may or may not be an actual nightmare. Then its all downhill from there. By the fifty page mark it is clear to the genre savvy reader just what is going on in The Rockwell (that not too subtle ironic name, think Norman, is about as witty as Saul gets) and the reader must work through another two hundred or so pages before the characters figure out the plainly obvious, that evil inhabits The Rockwell. Not helping is that it is evil we have seen done before, to death, in better told tales. Longtime fans of Saul will no doubt read this out of obligation, but others will put it down long before the heroes figure out the danger they are in.
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Summary: midnight nonsense
Review: While this book does have its creepy moments it does stretch the boundaries of belief a little too far. The story starts out nicely; a murder, a mysterious building and odd occupants but there are just too many questions left unanswered. Who was the actual killer? Why did everyone just disappear in the end? Was it all an illusion? The ending sure didn't shed much light though it did leave room for a sequel. When I was finished I thought it was pretty good and to an extent I still do; but are you really asking me to believe that a woman has just married a living corpse? Worse then that, that she made love with it and didn't realize that something was a miss? A little too much to swallow for my taste. I did enjoy the suspense though and the build up but I wish the ending would have provided more answers. I hope there is a sequel. ... This version contains three audio cassettes and is red by a single reader.
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